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21 Cards in this Set
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ecology |
the scientific study of how living things interact with each other and their environment |
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ecosystem |
all the living and nonliving things that interact in a particular environment |
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biotic |
living things |
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abiotic |
non-living things |
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biome |
a region of Earth that has a particular climate and certain types of plants |
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habitat |
the natural environment in which a living thing gets all its needs to live (home) |
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niche |
the role of a living thing in its habitat |
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food chain |
a model used to show the feeding relationship between a single producer and a chain of producers |
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food web |
a model used to show a feeding relationship in which many food chains overlap in an ecosystem |
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pyramid |
a model used to show the amount of energy available to living things in an ecosystem |
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community |
all the population that live and interact with each other in a particular place |
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producer |
an organism that captures energy from sunlight and makes its own food |
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consumer |
an organism that gets its energy by eating other living things in a food chain |
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decomposer |
an organism that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter |
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species |
a group of living things that are so closely related that they can breed with one another and produce offspring that can breed as well |
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herbivore |
organism that only eats plants |
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carnivore |
organism that eats animals only |
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omnivore |
organism that eats both plants and animals |
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detritivores |
organisms that eat plant or animal remains and other dead matter |
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autotroph |
organisms that automatically make their own food |
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heterotroph |
organisms that must find or hunt their own food |
